Miscellanies, 1. kötetHilliard, Gray, 1836 |
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7. oldal
... exercises of fear and love . It seems strange , contemplating Walter Scott in his after life , as firm as mild , to ... exercise of the sensibility the faculties were strengthened . There was yet little knowledge , but there was power ...
... exercises of fear and love . It seems strange , contemplating Walter Scott in his after life , as firm as mild , to ... exercise of the sensibility the faculties were strengthened . There was yet little knowledge , but there was power ...
43. oldal
... exercises it into greater refinement ; and puts loyalty more severely to the test , and inspires a nobler intre- pidity , and nourishes a deeper hatred , and a wilder supersti- tion , and a more inveterate avarice , and a more ...
... exercises it into greater refinement ; and puts loyalty more severely to the test , and inspires a nobler intre- pidity , and nourishes a deeper hatred , and a wilder supersti- tion , and a more inveterate avarice , and a more ...
54. oldal
... exercise and discipline should be represented as different from what they were . The same passions still sway human hearts ; but they must be shown to be intensi- -- -- fied or repressed by the new impulses which 54 PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS .
... exercise and discipline should be represented as different from what they were . The same passions still sway human hearts ; but they must be shown to be intensi- -- -- fied or repressed by the new impulses which 54 PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS .
68. oldal
... exercise of the mind , in which the imagination and the reason animate and improve each other , is in the highest degree beneficial to both . But if we proceed so far , or deviate so widely , that they can no longer accompany each other ...
... exercise of the mind , in which the imagination and the reason animate and improve each other , is in the highest degree beneficial to both . But if we proceed so far , or deviate so widely , that they can no longer accompany each other ...
78. oldal
... thus fail entirely , or succeed only by a fortunate accident . If he be rendered somewhat wiser by an exercise of observation , he will discover that the appearance arose after the combination of a certain set of 78 8 PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS .
... thus fail entirely , or succeed only by a fortunate accident . If he be rendered somewhat wiser by an exercise of observation , he will discover that the appearance arose after the combination of a certain set of 78 8 PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS .
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198. oldal - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes; put from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
214. oldal - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
214. oldal - It were a wantonness, and would demand Severe reproof, if we were men whose hearts Could hold vain dalliance with the misery Even of the dead ; contented thence to draw A momentary pleasure, never marked By reason, barren of all future good.
51. oldal - But a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated ; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give Or take away.
345. oldal - BENEATH this starry arch, Nought resteth or is still ; But all things hold their march As if by one great will. Moves one, move all ; Hark to the foot-fall ! On, on, for ever.
346. oldal - By night, like stars on high, The hours reveal their train ; They whisper, and go by ; I never watch in vain : Moves one, move all : Hark to the footfall ! On, on, for ever...
265. oldal - We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is either to sink under the trial or to be made callous by it. The best is to be as wise as possible under a great disability, and as happy as possible under a great privation.
341. oldal - LORD Jesus, come ; for here Our path through wilds is laid ; We watch as for the dayspring near, Amid the breaking shade.
170. oldal - ... affections till they are shed abroad in all their plenitude, the purposes of their creation become fulfilled. They were to life like a sleeping ocean to a bright but barren and silent shore. When the breeze from afar awakened it, new lights began to gleam, and echoes to be heard; rich and unthought-of treasures were cast up from the depths; the barriers of individuality were broken down; and from henceforth, they who choose may "hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
51. oldal - ... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit...